Billingsley v State

Billingsley v State
1913 OK CR 222
132 P. 1192
9 Okl.Cr. 734
Case Number: No. A-1753
Decided: 06/17/1913
Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Appeal from Oklahoma County Court; John W. Hayson, Judge.

Logan Billingsley was convicted of violating the gambling law, and appeals. Appeal Dismissed.

Giddings & Giddings, for plaintiff in error.

Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., and C.J. Davenport, for the State.

PER CURIAM. Plaintiff in error, Logan Billingsley, was convicted at the January, 1912, term of the county court of Oklahoma county, on a charge of conducting a roulette game, and his punishment fixed at a fine of five hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of sixty days. The Attorney General has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the plaintiff in error is a fugitive from justice and cannot be made to respond to the judgment of the court in this case. It has been repeatedly held that when a person appeals to this court from a conviction had in a trial court, and subsequent to the appeal and prior to the determination of such appeal, such person became a fugitive from justice, the appeal will be dismissed. When a person expects this court to review errors complained of in a trial court,